Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

Joshua Ripley

View famous kin of Joshua Ripley

• • 7th Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 776 
  • Father:
  • John Ripley 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hobart   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Nov 1658 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 18 May 1739 
  • Death Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Bradford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Nov 1682 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Alice Ripley

  Hannah Ripley

  Faith Ripley

  Joshua Ripley Jr. (Ahnentafel No:388 )

  Margaret Ripley

  Rachel Ripley

  Leah Ripley

  Hezekiah Ripley

  David Ripley

  Irena Ripley

  Jerusha Ripley

  Ann Ripley

• Sources for Joshua Ripley

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 206, Birth record for daughter Faith Ripley (at Hingham).
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record for daughter Alice Ripley.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record for son Joshua Ripley at Hingham.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 66.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 1930, Vol. 28, pp. 97-102.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 601.
  • ⁷ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, ""Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 20-22, 52.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "No. 77 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: An Assortment of Famous Actors", (incorrectly listed as John Ripley instead of Joshua), (accessed 11/19/2014).
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 222.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 43.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 74, 113, 316, 327, 385, 415, 451, 478, 734.
  • ¹² Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 20, 23.

Christopher Reeve image by Jbfrankel (CC BY-SA 3.0)